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Quite a few chargers in shopping car parks are 3 phase and capable of 22kW. In some places this would be extremely useful but I'm tight and it was not an option worth the money for my use, though it was mildly irritating not to be able to benefit from it whilst it was free in a local car park...

I did spec out a GTS but it was definitely not worth the extra money for the small power increment over a 4S, I had PTV, Sport Chrono (and PDDC and rear wheel steer) chosen anyway and PASM is, I believe, standard on all Taycans here. I like the leather and Racetex interior but sadly only...

This is not the case in the UK. It has unique model specific cosmetics but when I was choosing calculating power increase per cost increase for the various models the GTS had the least power increment per £ in the whole range. The 4S was the sweet spot, particularly if you weren't particularly...

Absolutely. That is why I noted depends on the driver and roads. London has loads of supercars which are certainly the most stupid form of transport available in the city, for example. Ferrari discovered long ago that the most important feature of their cars was for a fat, unfit person to be...

Both can be true depending on the sort of driver and roads. The idea that it isn't a Porsche without is absurd though, since at least 90% of Porsches were built without.

I think probably not, PDCC is active anti-roll bars and active suspension doesn't have or need anti-roll bars.

Aren't summer tyres standard here?

They may work, we didn't have them back then either! Over here the fog lights are red and indicators amber which tends to be brighter. Worth trying both

Try using the hazard flashers, it shouldn't be needed but does light up the rear a bit - a tip from somebody who learned to drive before any car had reversing lights and was taught to use the indicator to see a bit. Emergency flashers didn't exist either so now we can at least have twice the...

Given the service and test "recalls" there is evidently a problem with some battery seals. I seem to remember a whole series of cars from certain production dates needing to have their battery seals checked - mine may even have been one of them. I can imagine cars imported to Thailand from...

It is impossible to produce attached flow along the side of a car using framed glass (or guttering) so these are a design choice for low drag, not "bad design". Most people's comments are "me problems" relating to their taste and I am sure the companies take them into account but many (most?)...

When I bought my Taycan I was looking for a quiet comfortable car with space for my dog and a good turn of speed if I needed it. Probably not typical... It is better in both those senses than I hoped, so perfect for me. I already had a normally aspirated sports car making a nice noise (though I...

I started working in racing in the 1970s when we still had 3 pedals and driver skill with the gearbox in terms of not damaging it and not missing shifts - the difficulty of changing gear and driving an engine with difficult throttle response was the main reason we had overtaking back then - not...

My experience is mainly racing and most of the top drivers I worked with varied their braking to suit the circuit - only braking in a straight line is not common IME. I prefer coasting when cruising and regen with brake pedal when pressing on, personally. I have one-pedal driving on my...

I get a window asking me whether I want to accept cookies, if I select accept all for that video library it works fine for me on Safari/Mac. My only experience of limiting cookies was with Google, which is everywhere, so I decided I'd go in and deselect cookies about info I didn't want widely...

Michael Schumacher, when he first started earning lots of money in 1993/4, decided he wanted a super car. He had fun choosing one, trying all those he could and since he had no road car affiliation he could have any one of them. He chose a Bugatti EB110 which was much better than any other in...

I haven't looked at the detail of how the Porsche Active system works but here is an amusing little anecdote. Peter Wright, who was the "father" of the Lotus active system in the 1980s - and this was the most sophisticated then - was asked to go to GM (who owned Lotus at the time iirc) and...

They are quite different and PDCC is no longer available on the Taycan and afaik has never been on j1.2 so nobody other than Porsche test drivers and engineers will have experienced it. Frankly, you are not likely to get definitive data from forum members anyway. We probably have very limited...

I think the old advice to use the engine for braking originated from when drum brakes were very prone to overheat and fail going down hills. It made sense. I still use engine braking on hills in ICE cars.

I would be interested to hear if you find the turbo lag annoying in normal driving. Even before I experienced the instant throttle response and wide power band of an EV I found turbo cars unacceptable for normal use. Pretty impressive when flat out but poor for conditions here for overtaking...